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Mother of Jeannie Berlin

She and Mike Nichols were referred to as "the world's fastest humans".

Partnered with Mike Nichols for a number of years until their less than amicable split. They made up years later and wrote the movie The Birdcage (1996).

She married as a teenager and had a daughter (Jeannie Berlin, born in 1949) before she turned 18 years old

So brief was her 70s marriage to lyricist Sheldon Harnick of Fiddler on the Roof (1971) fame, the joke went that Elaine got custody of the cake.

Has not directed a movie since the colossal box office failure of Ishtar (1987).

Her play, "Hot Line," was nominated for a 1983 Joseph Jefferson Award for "New Work" at the Goodman Theatre in Chicago, Illinois.

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